Gay Arabic Speaker

From a dispatch from Jerusalem in the Times foreign section, under the headline, "Arrest of Leftist Israeli Activist Underlines Political Split":

Here in Israel, it is part of a toxic tug of war over the boundaries of political discourse amid mounting international criticism of Israel's policies toward the Palestinians. The dwindling left is frequently vilified as traitorous, as empowered right-wingers create ever-narrower definitions of Zionism. And the tactics are getting uglier.

Mr. Nawi, a gay Arabic speaker in his 60s and a prominent member of an Israeli-Palestinian rights group called Taayush, was not caught in a sting by the security apparatus for either Israel or the Palestinian Authority.

It's hard to know exactly where to start with this one. This leftist activist is revealed as ratting out Palestinians who sell land to Israelis, tagging them for death, and what the Times terms as "ugly" is not the Palestinian practice of killing those who sell land to Israelis, or the leftist Israeli who collaborates with the executioners by informing, but the right wing for exposing the situation. Also very strange. and probably in violation of Times standards, is the inclusion of Mr. Nawi's sexual orientation in an article without any indication of why it is relevant. There are plenty of other people mentioned in the article whose sexual orientation is not given, perhaps because they are assumed to be heterosexual.